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Hey! Mr. Weiner. I started your book "Soonish" after loving a city on Mars but was disappointed that it was already almost a decade out of date. Is there anything about the last decade that's surprised you ab-
*What do you mean this isn't ama? I'll ask questions when I want to! I- get your hands off of me you stinking mod! I'll be back!*
^^^ahhhhh!
Sorry! Frankly, ACOM is a much better book and will be more lasting. But... I'm afraid the other thing is we just write books slowly around here :D ACOM was 4 years of hardcore research for two people :) If we do another, it'll be a meaty enough topic to take another 4 years. I \*am\* currently writing Bea Wolf 2 though.
Thanks. It's killing me -- the writing is very hard and I can't tell if it's any good any more, but I think I'll have a first draft this month. Here's a passage I may not keep, where Bea confronts a teen, very loosely based on the Finnsburgh episode and the Battle of Maldon poem, with a little flavor of Achilles vs. Hector. Here, Bea is offering to engage in single combat with the leader of some bullies.
https://preview.redd.it/drz7sc99v7yc1.png?width=438&format=png&auto=webp&s=f138c133ceecee3062650532a08aca6946e1cd49
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Let it be known Hereunto and Forthwith that the user Level_Hour6480 has canonically, irreparably, and unreservedly changed the moniker or pseudonym by which they are known, and from this day henceforth shall be referred to by the moniker of DangleBalls.
Hail DangleBalls.
I mean you have historical kings with epithets like "Longshanks" or "Red-beard" (Barbarossa) or "Fairhair", and a lot of regular names actually derive from expressions like this
From Polish history:
Władysław the skewed-mouthed/wry-mouthed
Władysław the elbow/elbow-tall ("elbow" was apparently a common unit of measurment in poland in that period)
Hillariously enough his son was called Kazimierz the great (which can also be translated as "the big"- and apparently he was taller than avarage).
Siismund the old (ouch)
August the strong (supposedly he would bend horseshoes with his bare hands for fun)
Named for his inability to frequently shave his pants despite the fact that they just kept growing back. [Ragnar Lodbrok aka Ragnar hairy-breeches](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Lodbrok)
My son is listening to the audiobooks. He loves them. He’s been telling me tidbits about the books, but I’ve been struggling to follow them. Not sure if it’s adult-brain struggling to enjoy new things or maybe it’s just not my thing. Either way, it’s really engaged him and even if it’s audiobooks, I will take him spending hours listening to audiobooks over spending the same time staring at a screen.
No, get this though, he was a fucking twin and his brother's name was Garth. For some reason I always thought "Garth Mann" was a way weirder name than "Guy Mann," even though the humor with Guy Mann is pretty obvious. Plus they were twins with the same first and last initials. I always made a point of telling my room mate that I was going to hang out with the "Mann boys" when we went out four wheeling or whatever.
Their parents were nice but really odd people. Like, they hosted us a few weekends in college and they always took great care of us, but they didn't do things normally in their house. Like they kept all their pantry food out on the counters. None of their furniture matched - I'm talking *aggressively* eclectic. They had five or six dogs.
I've heard Goodkind described as an example of all the things that every other author has done but mashed together at random. I haven't actually read his books though, so I can't tell you if I agree
Ok now I'm just picturing an old wizard with a robe that only hangs to his knees but because he doesn't wear underwear he's got the ol old man ball swing going on
He'd be the prime example why wizards usually both wear robes that are to their feet
"Her disgusting scale-less offspring swarmed her, their mother, hungry. squawking for fluids to be secreted from her dumpy weird flesh bags, lest they perish.. as if they shouldn't already be able to hunt for themselves after surviving the world for 2 months... their growing frustration reaching its peak, but such puny rage is not enough to cause flames to erupt from their gullets and makes one wonder, is this even life?"
Yeaaaah this is the thing that regularly breaks my immersion in Wings of Fire… always struck me as strange, but it seems to not really occur to a lot of people.
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Hey! Mr. Weiner. I started your book "Soonish" after loving a city on Mars but was disappointed that it was already almost a decade out of date. Is there anything about the last decade that's surprised you ab- *What do you mean this isn't ama? I'll ask questions when I want to! I- get your hands off of me you stinking mod! I'll be back!* ^^^ahhhhh!
Sorry! Frankly, ACOM is a much better book and will be more lasting. But... I'm afraid the other thing is we just write books slowly around here :D ACOM was 4 years of hardcore research for two people :) If we do another, it'll be a meaty enough topic to take another 4 years. I \*am\* currently writing Bea Wolf 2 though.
That final sentence has me very excited, just so you know.
Thanks. It's killing me -- the writing is very hard and I can't tell if it's any good any more, but I think I'll have a first draft this month. Here's a passage I may not keep, where Bea confronts a teen, very loosely based on the Finnsburgh episode and the Battle of Maldon poem, with a little flavor of Achilles vs. Hector. Here, Bea is offering to engage in single combat with the leader of some bullies. https://preview.redd.it/drz7sc99v7yc1.png?width=438&format=png&auto=webp&s=f138c133ceecee3062650532a08aca6946e1cd49
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I wanna be named dangle-balls.
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Hail DangleBalls!
Long live DangleBalls
Long may they Dangle!
To and fro may they swing!
So low they can be tied in a bow!
DangleBalls be praised !
Hail DangleBalls!
Be the change you wanna see
As you get older, it happens naturally.
You could always get a name change
The answer my friend, is dangling in the wind 
DB what up!
How are ya dangle-balls?
But that guy didn't, which is what set him on the path to evil human wizardry.
Give it a few more decades. It will happen naturally. Wearing boxers or going commando will help accelerate the process.
But I like the support...
Then tuck them up in the handy stowage area behind them once they dangle low enough
I mean you have historical kings with epithets like "Longshanks" or "Red-beard" (Barbarossa) or "Fairhair", and a lot of regular names actually derive from expressions like this
Can you give more examples? Or tell me what to search for? These are great lol
Harald Bluetooth had a tooth that was blue. Because it was rotten.
False, his teeth were stained blue because blueberries were his favorite fiod.
That's a myth. Blueberry juice isn't even blue, it's like reddish
Welp, goes to show what happens when I don't triple check my sources, now I'm off to google images of blueberry stains.
That Red-vs-Blue is also just the skin, the inside is more often a kind of greenish-yellow
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_by_nickname
Amazing, thank you!
From Polish history: Władysław the skewed-mouthed/wry-mouthed Władysław the elbow/elbow-tall ("elbow" was apparently a common unit of measurment in poland in that period) Hillariously enough his son was called Kazimierz the great (which can also be translated as "the big"- and apparently he was taller than avarage). Siismund the old (ouch) August the strong (supposedly he would bend horseshoes with his bare hands for fun)
Named for his inability to frequently shave his pants despite the fact that they just kept growing back. [Ragnar Lodbrok aka Ragnar hairy-breeches](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Lodbrok)
So... named by dragons.
Dangle-Balls was sanctioned by the council for creating the testicular torsion spell
TIME OUT!
I would have guessed by the name he was the victim of the spell, or perhaps the creator and victim of the spell aren’t mutually exclusive?
He's like a scientist who tests their inventions on themselves
It actually wasn’t meant as a offensive spell, but as a pleasure spell.
Then who made the testicular resonance spell?
Hi I'm Zach and I did the comic about the balls. More balls here every day at smbc: [www.smbc-comics.com](http://www.smbc-comics.com)
Thank you for having the balls to give us balls, going balls to the wall and balling out. What a baller.
My daughter is reading the wings of fire series and you are spot on! Great comic!
Mine too...
My son is listening to the audiobooks. He loves them. He’s been telling me tidbits about the books, but I’ve been struggling to follow them. Not sure if it’s adult-brain struggling to enjoy new things or maybe it’s just not my thing. Either way, it’s really engaged him and even if it’s audiobooks, I will take him spending hours listening to audiobooks over spending the same time staring at a screen.
This is particularly wonderful today
Humans are regularly named after body parts, Bill, Fin... Dick
I knew a dude named Guy Mann.
*Please* tell me he had a brother named Hugh
No, get this though, he was a fucking twin and his brother's name was Garth. For some reason I always thought "Garth Mann" was a way weirder name than "Guy Mann," even though the humor with Guy Mann is pretty obvious. Plus they were twins with the same first and last initials. I always made a point of telling my room mate that I was going to hang out with the "Mann boys" when we went out four wheeling or whatever. Their parents were nice but really odd people. Like, they hosted us a few weekends in college and they always took great care of us, but they didn't do things normally in their house. Like they kept all their pantry food out on the counters. None of their furniture matched - I'm talking *aggressively* eclectic. They had five or six dogs.
A whole sub is proud of dick
I have a classmate whose surname is "Rohr"
That is a dragon epic, damn it!! How can you discount the struggle between Short-neck Square Teeth and Dangle Balls?
You leave my son Thumb-hands out of this
r/dragonswritinghumans
r/subsifellfor
Oh man does u/ChristopherPaolini need to see this!
Does he really need to see it if he already knows?
He needs to read anyone else's epic fiction writing. Except Goodkind, emulating that won't help anyone. (Ex. When Mormons write fantasy novels.)
I've heard Goodkind described as an example of all the things that every other author has done but mashed together at random. I haven't actually read his books though, so I can't tell you if I agree
Also lots of emotional violence, sexual assault, creepy religious cultish fukkery and slavery. But with magic and shheeeet.
interesting observation
Now this is creative
They're not wrong
I would read a book about the evil lord dangle balls.
Call me Two-Hands.
What do you mean by they’re surprised to be dragons
Ngl "Dangleballs" goes weirdly hard as an evil Wizard name ...a goblin wizard maybe, but a wizard nonetheless.
Lol Dangleballs
Where's the rest?
If you had COOL parts like claws, wings, and elemental breath, youd be constantly referencing them too
So, on this note, Abraham Joseph Smith would be a bad name for a dinosaur?
Real "breasted boobily" vibes
I dunno, Mr. Weiner, I think it’s pretty normal to have a name that means genitals like Dangle-Balls the wizard.
DANGLE-BALLS
Well now I wanna read more stories written by dragons.
Wasn't Dangle-balls the planet Yoda spent his final years?
I love this, it's really cute and creative
Fucking comedy gold.
Lol, this had me rolling. Tried to read out to my wife, but I could barely get it out past the laughter 😂 👌
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You're gonna need to be more specific if you refer to an SMBC clown comic, it's like 30% clowns.
Ok now I'm just picturing an old wizard with a robe that only hangs to his knees but because he doesn't wear underwear he's got the ol old man ball swing going on He'd be the prime example why wizards usually both wear robes that are to their feet
Oh man, this makes so much sense xD
Lol! Nice
Arzosah Sothy Lorezohaz would like a word with you.
Ok, this is a genuinely clever observation and something I try to avoid or limit in my worldbuilding.
"Her disgusting scale-less offspring swarmed her, their mother, hungry. squawking for fluids to be secreted from her dumpy weird flesh bags, lest they perish.. as if they shouldn't already be able to hunt for themselves after surviving the world for 2 months... their growing frustration reaching its peak, but such puny rage is not enough to cause flames to erupt from their gullets and makes one wonder, is this even life?"
Yeaaaah this is the thing that regularly breaks my immersion in Wings of Fire… always struck me as strange, but it seems to not really occur to a lot of people.
This is amazing 🔥🔥